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April 6, 2008

G7: Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 4

Beckett was very sharp early on. Ellsbury bopped a solo homer in the second to give the Sox a 1-0 lead. Beckett walked Rios to start the fourth and Wells followed with a home run. But Varitek came back with a solo shot in the fifth to tie the game at 2-2.

Beckett retired the first two Jays in the fifth, but gave up a little flair to left to Hill, who stole second. After Rios worked an eight-pitch walk, Beckett passed Wells on four straight. In came Delcarmen -- whose first pitch was clubbed to deep left center by Thomas for a grand slam.

Down by three in the 9th, the Sox rallied. Lowell reached on an infield single and with one out, Varitek lined a hit to right center. Ellsbury lined a 1-2 pitch just foul down the left field line before striking out. With two outs, it could have been redemption time for Lugo -- who committed three errors -- but he lofted a routine fly to center to complete the Toronto sweep.

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Josh Beckett (145 ERA+, 2007) / Roy Halladay (103 ERA+)

Beckett returns. Yesterday, it was reported that "the back spasm that forced [Beckett] out of his March 8 spring training start in Fort Myers had its origins in the hip area."

After the first week, my back really responded to the treatment, and once we got rid of the back spasms, basically what we had to do was just strengthen my hip. That's kind of where the problem lied. I think the back spasms were just more of protecting my hip. ...

Once we got the hip to where I could throw every day, throw bullpens, then it was just getting into games and building up.

Halladay lost to the Yankees on April 1 in his first start, allowing seven hits and three runs in seven innings.

Audio did not work on my computer yesterday. Had to go to another desk. Today, it works. Whatever.

Isn't this a national TBS game? Doesn't that mean it's an off-day for BuffyVision? So why is MLBTV saying the game is blacked out? Presumably, I CANNOT watch it the local Toronto broadcast, since there isn't one. So gimme the goddamn game!

Either I am wrong -- and Buffy is working -- or MLB is fucking up again.

i was pretty confused as to why i was not able to the sox yesterday. it wasnt a fox game correct? and direct-tv blacked it out...it makes no fucking sense.i hope this isnt a continuous problem for saturday games...ugh!

I was calling 'em the Devils last night at work. Talking to a friend at work last night who was amazed at the idiocy of that, yet Cleveland still has the Indians. glad we have perspective in this country.

When DOB did pbp for the soccer World Cup, people were calling for him to be tarred and feathered, as he clearly lacked knowledge of the game. Still, he seemed to have passion.

I sort of disliked him before I saw a feature on him on some show (Red Sox Report, maybe?). I was impressed with how much he just loves sports in general, and knows at least a little bit about almost everything. Now that he's specializing on the Sox mostly, I think he'll get better and better.

I didn't consider it to be too risque, at least not by south park standards. I mean, by normal standards, an 8 year old singing "you wanna do it in my butt?" would probably raise some red flags, but on south park... nah

sock, I notice you're anti-Aard. I think he's done fine. Came in the other day and battled against Eckstein who finally drew the walk with a fake out of the ump, and then today he shoulda been outta this, if not for Lugo effing around.